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CVE-2016-7910

CVE-2016-7910

EPSS 3.0%
Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0892https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1297https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1298https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1308https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94135